101.1 Smooth FM

101.1 Smooth FM is one of the three most opened stations in Macao SAR China in this directory. That is a small enough club that the country hub lists all of them above the fold, and a large enough country that the position means something.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. 101.1 Smooth FM transmits from Macao SAR China, where Chinese leads the listing, and broadcasts in Portuguese, which four of the country's stations use.

The shelf for the language holds 688 stations, led by Brazil. A station like this one broadcasting from Macao SAR China is what stops that shelf from being a second copy of one country's hub.

Among 7 stations in Macao SAR China here, this is the only one that puts jazz first. The jazz rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

101.1 Smooth FM streams in AAC while most of Macao SAR China's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

The station's site is at smoothfm.pt, which sits under the .pt country domain rather than Macao SAR China's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.